Cat Thursday

Welcome to the weekly meme that celebrates the wonders and sometime hilarity of cats! Join us by posting a favorite LOL cat pic you may have come across, famous cat art or even share with us pics of your own beloved cat(s). It's all for the love of cats! Enjoy! This fun meme is hosted by The True Book Addict. Go over to her site to join in the fun.  




Hi Cat Lovers,


I hope you all had a great week. I got a new Hello Kitty! keyboard from my son, to go with the mouse my daughter got me. They look so cute. 
I hope you all had a great week. Remember to enter my Enid Blyton giveaway (open all month), check out my links page for some cool people, and join my linky (open all week).


Thanks for your support,

Stuff I bought from Typo

Stuff I bought from Typo by bookscraftsprettythings on polyvore.com

plank 2 pen cup | CottonOn
$4.95 - cottonon.com

A4 Chalkboard | CottonOn
$9.95 - cottonon.com

birdcage large decal | CottonOn
$5 - cottonon.com

Oil Pastels 24pk | CottonOn
$15 - cottonon.com

heart pins | CottonOn
$2.95 - cottonon.com

Apron Strings | CottonOn
$2.50 - cottonon.com

keep calm blank card | CottonOn
$4.95 - cottonon.com

on a roll lace tape | CottonOn
$4.95 - cottonon.com

on a roll lace tape | CottonOn
$4.95 - cottonon.com

dual twine | CottonOn
$6.95 - cottonon.com

Press Gang Symbol | CottonOn
$0.75 - cottonon.com

What is an Infographic? - from Infographic Labs

What Is An Infographic? by Infographiclabs

News and stuff! Link up.

What's been happening with me?

• Well I told you all about how I had a sleep study done which you can read about here. This week I found another article talking about the dangers of not sleeping well.
• On Cat Thursday we had a visit from my friend Troy's cute kitten Mr Eccles,
• I have updated my links page to show Special Offers, Special Friends and Special Communities. I hope it's more organised now. 
• I finally added a media page - but am so excited that my numbers have already gone up since then. 
• Don't forget to enter my Enid Blyton giveaway if you live in Australia. Sorry I can't open it internationally. I think this is the first one I've done that's been restricted though. It's only because it weighs so much and the postage would cost too much. 
• Next week I will be on a well known blog - so watch out for this news. 
• This week my daughter was quoted in Cleo magazine.
• I also helped my friend Tracey from The Lemon Tree Book Co. to launch her blog.
• I have been working at the Local Studies Library helping add metadata to the scanned historical images ready for the online catalogue. This is amazing and interesting work.
• My son (whom we call Starchaser) was awarded his Certificate IV in small business.
• Next week I plan on working on my "About Me" and Linkedin profile

What about you? Now I'm starting to feel a bit more well rested thanks to CPAP therapy, I am dying to catch up with all your news. Please link up below with a story from your blog so I can check out what you've been doing.  Also, please consider visiting each other's pages. There are no rules about having to use my badge or anything - this is just a "one-off", catching up with blog news, all round fun event. The linky will be up for one week.

Giveaway - Enid Blyton "Famous Five" Box Set (10 books)

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Cat Thursday - starring Mr Eccles

Welcome to the weekly meme that celebrates the wonders and sometime hilarity of cats! Join us by posting a favorite LOL cat pic you may have come across, famous cat art or even share with us pics of your own beloved cat(s). It's all for the love of cats! Enjoy! This fun meme is hosted by The True Book Addict. Go over to her site to join in the fun.   

This week Jigglypuff grudgingly gave up her spot for her friend Mr Eccles (aka Eccleston J. Kitten or "the kitteh with the ebil plan"). 

Isn't he adorable? - but watch out - he may be up to some tricks ;)

You can follow Mr Eccles on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/Mister_Eccles

Cupcake Pincushion.

I made this little pin cushion in one night. It would be an ideal gift to make with the kids so they could give it to their teacher or grandmother or favourite Aunt who sews. I crocheted a little circle for the icing, but you could knit one, or just cut out a nice lace flower or something depending upon your preference. The pearl head pins look just like cashous that you use in cake decorating. Hope the pictures help you to see how I made it.

Cat Thursday - the Multimedia Inspector

Welcome to the weekly meme that celebrates the wonders and sometime hilarity of cats! Join us by posting a favorite LOL cat pic you may have come across, famous cat art or even share with us pics of your own beloved cat(s). It's all for the love of cats! Enjoy! This fun meme is hosted by The True Book Addict. Go over to her site to join in the fun.  




I have been posting Tigers and lolcats and vintage cats and let me tell you Jigglypuff is not happy. You see Cat Thursday is supposed to be all about her. She is adamant that she will star this week, so she was doing all sorts of cute poses. The funniest one was when Starchaser got his new Multimedia set up. We were checking it out and ooohing & ahhing. So of course Jigglypuff had to show her approval. :)

This lolcat approves of Jigglypuff's inspection:

For those who know me - you know I love Shakespeare 

- so let's just say GTFO stands for Get Thee Further Out

Hugs ;o

May Gibbs

May Gibbs by bookscraftsprettythings 

May Gibbs (1877 - 1969) was an author, illustrator and environmentalist. I named one of my guinea pigs after her. You can read about her at Nutcote.

Beatrix Potter

Beatrix Potter by bookscraftsprettythings 

Beatrix Potter (1866 - 1943) was an artist, writer and scientist. I named one of my guinea pigs after her. You can read about her at The Beatrix Potter Society.

Crazy mama's Blog Hop

Camille from Crazy Mama is having a blog hop. Isn't that so kind of her? 

Just some good old fashioned kindness and support for each other. 

Bloggers are some of the nicest people I know. 

To join in, you can add your link below or go to Crazy Mama's 

- make sure you check out everyone else's blogs, too. 

Thanks,

Our hotel - Thailand holiday

When we went to Phuket, we stayed at the beautiful Patong Merlin. Everything was so beautiful and they looked after us really well. Here's a few photos from the hotel.